module manufacturing

Thin-film module manufacturer First Solar has reached a module backlog of 71.6GW and sold all its allocated US capacity through 2026.

India-based renewables developer Avaada Group has raised US$1 billion from asset owner Brookfield Renewable to fund the growth of its renewable energy platform in India.

The US market is expected to see a strong uptick in overall module supply, both domestic and overseas, in 2023. Alongside this will be a range of different module technologies, making the US market the most differentiated from a technology standpoint this year.

Solitek targets the agriPV and industrial markets in Italy to set itself aside from Chinese manufacturers with its bifacial glass-to-glass modules.

Spanish utility Iberdrola has submitted proposal for 1.6GW PV module assembly plant to the European Commission’s (EC) Innovation Fund.

India’s accelerated pace with its domestic solar manufacturing capacity is set to reach 110GW of solar PV module capacity per year by 2026.

The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has released the list of companies awarded in the second round of the Production Linked Incentive (PLI).

Comprising 14 production lines, the factory is expected to begin production on or before the end of October this year.

Lithuania-headquartered solar PV manufacturer Solitek has expanded its operations into Italy with a 600MW module assembly plant in Benevento.

TÜV Rheinland held a ‘Global PV Buyers’ Workshop’, inviting some 20 representatives from the industry’s downstream players to take part. Brookfield Renewable, BayWa, Engie, TotalEnergies and Lightsource BP and others, and companies mainly engaged in development and operations such as ACWA Power, Bouygues and ECADI shared their thinking from different perspectives on module quality and procurement strategies.